Creating a Battle Bot

terminator363

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So we have a assignment in our metal work class which requires us to build a battle bot. It will not be remotely controlled, but it will be connected with cables coming out from the back. What design would you guys recommend? Help me with ideas! :dunce:

Thanks in advance! :)
 
I have done this too, although it was not 'officially' a battle bot, but it had lot's of elements in it.

I suggest to use rubber 'tank' tires (i don't know how to call them), you know, those bands that are on war-tanks: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/35276932_417dab14ac_m.jpg.

For the wheels, you don't have to use as much as in the picture. Four in total will do (two in the back, two in the front), just like a car. But of course the wheels drive the rubber band, and the wheels get driven by an electromotor.

For the machinery (barrel to shoot things with, ejection-cillinder to use as a 'punching'-gun, or whatever), you can use pneumatics. It is very simple, but make sure the mechanics (working with steel, cutting, bending, etc.) are DEAD ACCURATE in order to make the whole work fluently. The drive (electrical, pneumatical) isn't very hard.

Good luck
 
For simplicity it has to be.
Roadblock.jpg


tornado.jpg


Both proved very effective designs in the British Robot Wars.
 
The bot at 0:28 is almost exactly what I was planning ours to be. The only difference is that in the middle it would have a piston. So if anything was to climb over top of it, I would trigger the piston and launch the bastard in the air. What do you guys think?
 
ExigeEvan
tornado.jpg
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I was actually going to suggest a design similar to that of Tornado. Although it was built to slam into opponents at high speed rather than use bladed weaponry, it's still a very effective way of inflicting damage to another robot. A bot like that would need to have a considerable amount of power though.
 

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